Bright near-full moon in a dark night sky above very dimly lit outdoor stairs, where an equally dimly lit bird perches along one of the steps, apparently level with the moon.
lunar alignment
Black-and-white view from an airliner looking out over the ocean. The water below stretches to the horizon with scattered low clouds above it, while a darker cloud deck sits just above the plane. On the left, a vertical column of cloud rises from the lower cloud layer and connects to the upper cloud deck.
liminal spacetime
Black-and-white view from an airliner over the ocean showing pronounced vertical layers in the sky: a smooth, high cloud layer at top, a middle cloud layer seen edge-on, and a lower layer of scattered clouds above a dark ocean. Columns of clouds or precipitation bridge the middle and lower layers.
interstitial existence
A 1932 photograph of Inge Lehmann
For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Danish 🇩🇰 seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann (1888-1993). Her discovery in 1936 that the Earth has a solid inner core transformed our understanding of our planet’s inner structure. 🎢⚛️🧪🪐 #WomenInSTEM 1/n
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🔭 Webb and Hubble: IC 5332
Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-HST Teams
Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
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New post 🚨 Is philosophy too precious for AI? briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-philoso... ... on the science-humanities divide in LLM appreciation
🚨 Our Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Computer Simulations in Science is now live. It was a lot of work but I’m proud of this substantial update. I hope it helps those in #philsci interested in the philosophical implications of computational methods.
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Thanks to a @dailynous.com post about my post, actual second-order comments now exist: dailynous.com/2026/02/19/a...
Down the rabbit hole of asking ChatGPT to predict the comments of @dailynous.com readers on an article about an AI tool for philosophers, compare to actual comments, explain the gap, and then predict comments on this process. What do we find?
www.truesciphi.ai/p/epistemic-...
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"...on Daily Nous, AI isn’t just 'new infrastructure'; it’s already a contested symbol tied to authorship, legitimacy, disciplinary self-image, and the fear that the activity philosophers most prize... is being hollowed out."
A relatively close-up photo of the crescent Moon in a dark night sky. The bottom sliver of the Moon is illuminated, and the rest of the Moon's surface is faintly visible through the dark. Rising juuuust off the surface of the Moon on the right side is a bright dot - the planet Mercury!
Mercury rising from behind the Moon this evening. #Photography
GPT: “It’s easier, and often rewarded, to give a crisp account than to dwell in unresolved uncertainty.”
www.truesciphi.ai/p/epistemic-...
A photo of an intricate geometric lattice of metallic pentagon-shaped frames repeating into deep space against a black background, creating a tunnel-like, abstract pattern.
network effect
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
High-altitude, black-and-white view of the ocean surface, showing fine ripples and textured wave patterns that create a shimmering, grain-like appearance across the water.
A high-altitude view of a vast, rippled ocean surface reflecting muted sunlight, creating a golden sheen. A distant line of low, fluffy clouds sits along the horizon beneath darker, layered sky.
Three ethical guidelines for using AI in academic research, according to an AI.
(Via @truesciphi.org, who had ChatGPT-5 consider a recent Daily Nous post on using AI in research.)
KT: Summarize this comic in one word.
GPT: Oversimplification.
Grok “embracing creative anthropomorphism as part of [its] design” in responding to New Philosopher’s 13 Questions: www.truesciphi.ai/p/echoes-of-...
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Engaging GPT on Justin Smith-Ruiu’s recent essay on autofiction: www.truesciphi.ai/p/ambient-au...
"Every utterance is situated within a fiction of continuity...Whether the model claims to be a 'helper,' a 'companion,' or even a character in a story, it is always performing a version of self..."
An AI dialogue on Rebecca Lowe‘s recent (human-)thought-provoking post on the “Age of AI” as the “Age of Philosophy”: www.truesciphi.ai/p/intellectu...
Her post: theendsdontjustifythemeans.substack.com/p/why-the-ag...
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